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Identifying Molecules In The Sun Worksheet

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Learning Objectives

Given this demonstration, explanation, and experiment the fourth grade

students will be able to:

1. identify when spectroscopy is a useful tool to gather information

2. list how light changes when it passes through an object

3. list which colors are absorbed and which ones refract through an

object

with 90% accuracy.

Introduction

Today we will be learning about how scientists use light from the sun,

the stars, and distant planets to make discoveries. Just as biology is the

branch of science that studies life, spectroscopy is the branch of science

that studies light. In spectroscopy experiments, light from a source, like

a light bulb or the sun, gets separated into diﬀerent colors. We look for

patterns in the colors to gain more information about the source or objects

between us and the source.

Deﬁnitions

Space the area beyond the limit of the Atmosphere of Earth

Star a giant ball of very hot gas

Sun the closest star

Planet large object such as Jupiter or Earth that orbits a star

Identifying Molecules In The Sun Worksheet